July 2018 External Threat Summary

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Data Exposure

LifeLock vulnerability exposed millions of customer email accounts.

Identity theft protection firm LifeLock — a company that’s built a name for itself based on the promise of helping consumers protect their identities online — may have actually exposed customers to additional attacks from ID thieves and phishers.

Data Exposure

Robocent firm exposes thousands of US voter’s records.

RoboCent, a Virginia Beach-based political robocall firm, has exposed the personal details of hundreds of thousands of US voters, according to the findings of a security researcher who stumbled upon the company’s database online.

Online Fraud

Technical support scam targeting Dell customers ongoing.

A tech-support scam targeting Dell computer owners continues to raise questions about how the callers know sensitive information, including PC serial numbers and the names, phone numbers, and email addresses customers gave to the PC maker.